Freezing berries during the season and making low-sugar homemade jams and jellies are several ways to increase access to the annual supply of local foods, reduce sugar, and reduce grocery bills. Kathy Savoie, a collaborative extension educator at the University of Maine, has an easy-to-understand video (https: // extension.
Freezing berries during the season and making low-sugar homemade jams and jellies are several ways to increase access to the annual supply of local foods, reduce sugar, and reduce grocery bills.
Cathy Savoie, a collaborative dissemination educator at the University of Maine, has an easy-to-understand video (https://extension.umaine.edu/food-health/food-preservation/how-to-videos/how-to-Freeze-strawberries / ), And this short video (https://extension.umaine.edu/food-health/food-preservation/how-to-videos/how-to-make-skeleton-jam/).
UMaine Extension is a future food preservation workshop (https://extension.umaine.edu/food-health/food-preservation/hands-on-workshops/), either directly or in a webinar, as the main season arrives. Also offers. A monthly spoonful blog featuring foods, recipes, bite-sized foods and nutritional information.
Extension publications can provide ways to find, grow, use, and store seasonal fruits and vegetables, including how to save these June favorites.
Let’s save the strawberries
Save jellies, jams and spreads
Save: Leafy vegetables
Freeze the fruit
Frozen vegetables
Vegetables and Fruits for Health: Pea
Updated information and publications to download or order are available on the Extension website or by contacting 207-581-3188, 800-287-0274, Maine. Or extension@maine.edu.
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